Lenovo x220 - good backup laptop

Apr 7, 2017

About a month ago my old laptop started to experience powering issues when I moved a bit the display. Long story short: I tried to repair and I fucked it up beyond repair.
I was looking for cheap laptop to get by and I was recommended x220. I ordered the i5 version from Ebay and it was delivered in about three days.
It cost me about 120 GBP - its the version with 4gb of RAM and HDD. I wanted to use my SSD which did not work out of the box - I had to install windows 10 in order to update bios.
But after installing SSD and additional memory (now I am at 8GB) its much more faster then my old computer.

The good stuff:

very cheap

with SSD and extra memory (up to 16GB) its still reasonably fast - I had no problem running two virtual systems and three chrome apps at the same time.

The keyboard is better then on any laptop. Say what you want but this laptop will beat any of the new ones.